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Fix and Flippers, LLC has closed a bulk Performing Notes purchase transaction with two private companies for an undisclosed amount.

For many years I’ve attempted to locate a perfect match: a buyer and a seller for non-performing or performing notes. Like many colleagues, I’ve encountered the most frustrating situations: after being hand-walked into a servicing company 5 years ago, I was delivered notes on a platter, but I hadn’t identified a true buyer, and consequently, I burned my relationship because my “buyers” did not or could not close anything.

Then over the years I’ve met many true and serious note buyers who could not prove their capabilities to me because I had no notes to sell them. This was soon to change.

Recently I was introduced to a note seller through a referral partner, they proved to hold some product of interest but like most deals – ultimately fell apart.

Rewind to December 2016, originating from a Craigslist ad – I get a response to an ad I post regularly about private trust deed lenders who make loans to flippers, especially in 2nd position, as gap lenders, he explained that although in his companies’ 25 year history they’ve purchased performing and non-performing notes as well as REO from banks, credit unions, savings and loans, builders, mortgage companies, private equity firms, and that they’d buy a single loan and has closed $100M loan portfolio and now they’ve had success buying from individual investors and offering them an outlet.

He wanted me to refer my private lenders to them, but of course, I needed a way to vet their company.

All year I’ve been sending them note packages and they make bids and proceed with due diligence, which lead to notes with no discount, heavily shopped, fake packages, notes with no title policy and/or missing or incomplete paperwork, until finally one of the many leads I’ve introduced to them: brings a fresh portfolio of 20+ performing, agency quality performing notes, of course many things went wrong with the deal, with the usual transaction drama that ultimately resulted in a large portion of the notes to be dropped from the purchase, but finally it closed!

Now we can officially add this to our resume of different transactions we’ve facilitated or been a part of including single family, bulk single family, an operating business, various kinds of loans/funding and now bulk notes.

This is the time of year when lenders may have loans on their books that they want to get off before the end of the year. Also during the year institutions will lose investors and investors decide to discontinue programs. They can sell to my buyer.

Experts would agree with me when I state that: A portfolio or seasoned, long-term, low coupon fixed rate loans can become an asset risk liability…

Sub-Prime loans that remain in company pipelines and portfolio can become a risk liability.

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We are a high-end construction rehab team consisting of an experienced General Contractor of 20+ years, Real Estate Agent with 10 years experience & Marketing Executive with 15 years experience.

We are in the business of locating, privately funding (through trust deed lenders) luxury rehab projects throughout the Los Angeles area. We are well experienced with all phases of rehab and construction including basic kitchen/bathroom remodels, swimming pools, windows, smooth finish stucco, landscaping and complete demo/scrape/ground-up construction.

We are always in the market for off-market fix/flip candidates that we can either add square footage, repurpose, re-zone, sub-divide or improve for a profit. We’ll look at anything that has upside.

If you are looking for a dependable, fair contractor that’s licensed, bonded & insured to manage your project, or manage your contractors & sub-contractors, contact us! We can also provide the initial SOW (Scope of Work) to your lender and be your experienced contractor to help you qualify for ARV loans!

Right now reinforcing & replacing the fittings in your home can be important if you have an older home, since we live in an earthquake State! We can help with this!

We can provide one-on-one mentoring for 1st-time flippers, women are welcome to contact us!

If you’re interested in becoming a gap partner or trust deed investor, let me know, we constantly have opportunities to fund. We can keep your funds moving.

Here are some projects completed and shows our work..

9222 Bartley Ave Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670

Purchased on 3/21 for $350K,

Sold 9/16 for $500k after investing $50K rehab.

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653 Tularosa Dr. Silver Lake, CA 90026

Purchased 3/15/15 for $625K, Invested $250K rehab

Sold for $1,350,000 on Apr 12, 2017

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4083 Sea View Ave Los Angeles, CA 90065

Purchased 8/24/16 for $1,150,000 With a rehab budget of $300,000. Currently in construction with 60 days remaining.

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With a record year for the on-demand industry in 2016, the big prediction for 2017 is that on-demand companies will expand to new industries.

That’s happening now in residential construction. For too long residential construction has been plagued with going over budget, not meeting deadlines and plainly losing money primarily due to lack of communication.

Most contractors do not use project management software to keep their jobs in-line.

95% of all residential remodel projects end up in frustration. Homeowners go into a project excited about their contractor only to soon be in the dark about what is going on.

The new on-demand startup “Project Buddy” http://www.projectbuddyservices.com is the 1st of its kind and planning to revolutionize the industry: Creating completely transparent transactions between homeowners and contractors. Simply put, Project Buddy helps organize projects.

Project Buddy Founder, Robert L. Williams

“After years of consulting in the construction industry I found that almost every job had a point where the client thought they were being cheated, it was almost always due to a simple lack of communication. Construction remodel projects are very organic and change daily. I started Project Buddy to help both Contractor and client stay up-to-date on a weekly basis.”

Project Buddy, from PGN Design Group, works with a cloud-based construction software that all parties have access to with their smartphone, tablet or computer. Project Buddy finally makes it easy for homeowners to follow the progress of their construction project from anywhere and makes it easy for contractors to keep their clients updated on day-to-day progress of their projects. It works with 5 easy steps.

So who’s doing the actual work? Numerous “buddies” manage jobs in the areas that they live in. They can work as much or as little as they want. Think of it as the Uber for Project Managers.

The site will work on weekly contracts so that there is no big commitment from homeowners or buddies. For contractors, there’s no need to hire and train full-time employees only to have the burden of their salaries on the books when it gets slow.

At the end of each week, clients have the ability to either “opt-in” if they like the service or “opt-out” and we’ll see you on the next one!

Project Buddy will have the ability to do one or all of their jobs. The company is poised to disrupt the residential construction industry by helping smaller companies with growth, and larger companies with quality control. The price is $500/week for most projects, cheaper than the cost of a laborer sweeping up the site!

Why Use Them?

Lost Time = Lost Money

Cloud-based Software = Transparency, 24/7 access from any device.

Organize contractor = Get Job Done!

Weekly contracts = No Big Commitment

One low rate for any size project

Project Buddy has launched in Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area with expansion to other major cities in the U.S. later in the year.

Preferred Partners:

Contractors/Developers – Instead of carrying a payroll employee as a superintendent, we can replace that cost, and we have no problem with working for 1 week..

Real Estate Agents – You know all of the Wholesalers, Flippers and Homeowners doing remodels, refer our service and receive a $500 referral for each.

Architects – You work with homeowners and flippers too, with our service, you can monitor the project remotely and not get left out of the circle. Refer our service and receive a $500 referral for each.

Hard Money Lenders – We can act as a 3rd party service provider that can be financed and used as a kind of “insurance policy” Lenders can require their borrowers to use Project Buddy, and they‘ll always know what’s going on with the project! Two words – Accountability Partner. Protect their loans. Less foreclosures will increase bottom-line.

Owner Builders – You want someone to babysit the work-site, and you don’t want the job! We’ll help week-to-week, until you don’t need us anymore! You can see all the progress on your smartphone or preferred device, and read the notes left by the Buddy. Perfect Communication!

Book us for one job, for one week and you will quickly see how easy and smooth your job/s will run.